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It will be objected, that if the Soul constitutes the We [the
personality] and We are subject to these states then the Soul
must be subject to them, and similarly that what We do must be
done by the Soul.
But it has been observed that the Couplement, too- especially
before our emancipation- is a member of this total We, and in
fact what the body experiences we say We experience. This then
covers two distinct notions; sometimes it includes the
brute-part, sometimes it transcends the brute. The body is brute
touched to life; the true man is the other, going pure of the
body, natively endowed with the virtues which belong to the
Intellectual-Activity, virtues whose seat is the Separate Soul,
the Soul which even in its dwelling here may be kept apart. [This
Soul constitutes the human being] for when it has wholly
withdrawn, that other Soul which is a radiation [or emanation]
from it withdraws also, drawn after it.
Those virtues, on the other hand, which spring not from
contemplative wisdom but from custom or practical discipline
belong to the Couplement: to the Couplement, too, belong the
vices; they are its repugnances, desires, sympathies.
And Friendship?
This emotion belongs sometimes to the lower part, sometimes to
the interior man.
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